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Welcome.
My name is Rob and I am the Executive Producer of the Clubhouse podcast and you gotta be honest.
Pretty dope dude.
But I'm not alone for this particular episode.
Joining me across the desk as he tends to do is a man who does know the ledge.
He is my co-host, he is Chad, welcome sir.
What?
You understand as we go along.
Also joining us for this episode is the official fact checker of this show.
And a man who actually still wears his MC Hammer pants, but only at home.
You may know him as fun, don't go, but his mom and even don't want him to call him, don't want him.
Actually, they're parachute pants.
Nice.
Oh God.
Oh dear God.
I thought of you in skinny jeans as terrifying enough parachute pants.
That's even more disturbing.
Whatever we do one of these episodes, it is to review something in this episode.
Our 110.
Atom takes closure.
This is no exception.
We are here today to review the latest film from writer director Rick Famo Yua.
I'll say good luck with this one.
Guy who directed movie called The Wood.
If you remember that.
Great movie.
And as well as Brown Sugar.
His latest obis which he also wrote is called Dope.
A lot of first time actors in this, but a couple of names you might recognize as well.
Like Kimberly or Lisa.
Rick Fox.
Yes, that Rick Fox from the L.A.
Lakers.
Zoe.
Cranets.
Narrated by the Great Forest Whitaker.
Who's also a producer as well as the Peepuff Ditty Daddy.
And Pharrell Williams.
Also a producer.
And who if I'm not mistaken had a bit of a cameo in this didn't he?
Who's that?
Pharrell.
In the very beginning.
I can't recall.
I don't want to say where it was.
But we'll talk about it out there.
Basically, this is the story of Malcolm.
He is a teenager in Inglewood.
Who hangs out with his two best friends.
Malcolm.
Of course, played.
I lost my place there.
By Shemik Moore.
Hanks out with his two best friends.
Diggy played by Kiersey Clemens.
And Gib played by Tony Revolution.
Who you might remember as the kid in the Grand Buddha Pest Hotel.
Of course.
They are living in a modern world.
But they're obsessed with 90s hip hop and 90s fashion.
Because who is it?
Because I know I think it.
Another wrong way to start.
They're just kids trying.
Malcolm wants to go to Harvard.
He's working very hard.
He's the only child raised by a single mother played by the Great.
Kimberly Elise.
Working as a butt driver.
And he also, of course, living in Inglewood has to deal with
the drug culture therein.
And by having stands.
Be friends.
A local drug dealer named Dom.
Played by rapper Asap Rocky.
And because he does him a quick favor of trying to get a young lady to talk to him.
By the name of Nekia.
Played by Zoey Cravits.
He invites him to his birthday party.
What they're having on a club.
Spring said birthday party.
Some things go horribly, horribly wrong.
And Malcolm winds up with a lot of drugs in his book bag.
From Dom.
From Dom, of course.
And what follows is an adventure with three kids trying to figure out how to not only get
rid of these drugs.
But stay alive at the same time.
I think they're pretty much sums it up.
As far as we want to go down the rabbit.
Yeah.
Dom, let's start with you.
I really think about the storyline here.
Before we begin.
We got to think our best friends.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
And everybody at L.I.The Integrated Markets.
All those Lindsey wearing that black hawks to the shirt last night.
Rubbing it into my face.
Very uncool.
Just want the you know.
Yeah.
But the expense of my lightning.
Yeah.
But still.
We love them to death.
We want to give them grief.
Okay.
The storyline of the film.
Yes.
I.
If you read my written review at the club as podcast.com.
That's our website.
I put on there where I liked where the movie started off with with a good story and some good comedy.
And this was kind of in that ilk of I thought like something like Friday.
Right.
What it started off.
But then it takes a turn.
And it goes into in a somewhat weird direction.
It goes in multiple terms.
Then it has to say that it takes another turn.
And another turn where goes in east and west and south.
We south west and south east and northeast.
Then go to the north.
Pull to the south.
Pulled in goes back.
So on the storyline.
I like the beginning.
But it just got really weird on the directions.
They went to.
Okay.
Okay.
And I'll leave that for now.
All right.
If that's fine.
Check.
Not the film that I thought I was going to get you and me both.
Me three.
And I'm not saying that in a bad way.
It's just when I when I first heard about this film.
I thought it was going to be about.
The 90s hip hop culture that I mean that it was going to be based in the north of a slice of life.
Yeah.
I mean I thought it was going to be another Friday.
I really did.
And then kind of find out that these kids are just kind of.
Obsessed with that culture and time.
You know that that that era of music.
And that it plays.
Not as big of a role as I thought it was going to play.
Yeah.
Because when we first started watching it.
I was like, okay.
We're going to be in the 90s.
We're going to be doing the seal.
Why is there a cell phone in the table?
Yeah.
And then I realized.
Okay.
This is more.
This is just kid that like that era.
But it takes place in modern day.
And even then I was still expecting kind of a.
More of a slice of life kind of a thing.
And wow.
This thing took a look.
It's been on me.
Yeah.
But I thought it took that spin very, very well.
It's like if if Tarantino ever decided to make a film.
Like house party.
Yeah.
This is, you know, there you guys.
Tarantino.
Tarantino does does the ink well.
Yeah.
Yeah.
More or less.
But I mean, I dug it.
I didn't.
I might see.
Although Don didn't like the different directions.
I kind of liked how it flashed backwards and forwards.
And kind of followed each group of people when they separated.
So you knew what they were going through too.
Well, that part I didn't really mind.
But I just felt the flow went really up down and all around the thing.
I will say I thought that the movie dragged about the halfway to two thirds.
Way through the film.
I thought there was some dragging there.
But the last 10 minutes were wraps up.
Really got me.
That's true.
That's true.
Big time.
Let's see.
That didn't really bother me.
I really enjoyed this film from the standpoint of just sitting back.
And we were told by a friend of ours the night before that it's an indie film.
And it is a young film.
It's one of those films that you just kind of go accepted for what it is.
And just sit back and enjoy yourself for two hours.
And I really dug that about it.
Nothing really spectacular from a cinematic standpoint.
From a viewing standpoint.
It was shot pretty straightforward.
But what do you expect with the storyline like this?
It's LA.
It's, you know, the hood.
It's inglewood.
Well, this was, and to give people a background on this film.
This was a film that debuted Sundance this year.
And it was the rage everywhere.
It was kind of the darling of the festival.
And so you know, you know it's an indie film going into it.
So you don't expect slam-bang visuals and things of that nature.
And you can kind of see there's a couple of points where you go,
I'm not sure I would have to use that take or maybe I would have shot this differently.
But it still looked good.
I don't have any problems with the visually.
No, not at all.
Oh, the other day.
It was fun for what it is.
But it wasn't.
It didn't have to be the big special effect rate.
It fit more for what the film was.
Right.
Right.
And the, like, and the trailers that I saw told me nothing at all.
Yeah.
Made either.
I agree with you.
It was just like, if, if that was a fiction.
A bunch of different versions of the, of the title card and like pictures.
And I really, I didn't go out of my way to look for details on this film.
I kind of wanted to go into a kind of cold, give no way the trailers were.
Well, I mean, what little bit of stuff there is out there that even that doesn't give away a heck of a lot.
And see, this song was in the film.
That's what I'm saying.
You know the ledge.
Oh, okay.
This song was actually in the film.
Oh, okay.
Which actually comes from a different film.
Well, through the, I, I did like the comedy.
Because I had to comedy throughout.
There was really a handsome good stuff.
We're like, there's a seeds we can't talk about.
But it just made you roll in.
I was in some fellow critics that are next to me, which, you know, but they were female.
But when two scenes scenes hit on comedy.
That just was like, even they were laughing, but it's just kind of weird.
But the comedy was good throughout.
But I said, I decided to add a little drag at one point.
I got to understand.
Yeah.
From a performance standpoint, Chad.
Any standouts for you?
This, this, Kiersey Clemnings.
Uh.
I'm, I'm keeping my eye on her who played diggy.
Um.
And.
Uh.
She made more who when I, when you first see him in this film with his eye top fade.
All I could see was he looks like a mashup of.
Dwayne Wayne.
Dwayne Wade.
Dwayne Wayne from a different world.
Different world.
And, um, then where you come from.
And, and Chris Rock's Pookie from New Jack City with a little more meat on his bucklings.
Well, I, I, I saw there a little bit of Cuba Gooding Jr's character from the boys in the hood.
I've just seen his physical resemblance.
It's a, yeah.
Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
All he needed was a pair of flip, flip, flip, flip up round rim shades.
And considering who's playing his, his romantic foil semi in this film.
Yeah.
Zoe, Zoe, crab it to.
Looks more like her mother.
If you were sure who her mother is because you don't really see it.
If you see him, we'll be like, good kill.
But in this, when she's got the bridge, you go, oh my god.
There's no way that that's not least the bonus.
She's sitting on a staircase like studying for her GED or something.
I think that's what it was.
She was studying for GED.
And I'm, and I leaned over and, and said, wow.
I leaned over to Andrew and said, she looks just like her mother in this shot.
I said the same thing to Dave.
I was sitting next to Dave in this.
I was like, wow.
It's spooky.
Yeah.
Really spooky.
And again, somebody else think we all need to keep our eyes on this girls.
This girls' roles are getting more and more diverse and interesting as her career progresses.
Done.
Yeah.
I, my, she didn't crib all I thought.
But my little standout is going to have to be actually, like, you're saying,
uh, curiously, clemence.
Like, I, she was my good standout.
Uh, and she can remind me of, of the young Lisa, but when they like the different
world.
Kind of.
Yeah.
I didn't like the, the mesh that they had as a threesome with GED,
and she was like, oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, you could say this.
You know, minor part shining star has to go to Blakey Anderson.
Because there's one scene where you just built for the guy.
Played will sure would be a hacker drug dealer.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, you could say this.
She gets it.
But all the kids saying a carrot top before the fairies.
This kid looks like Eric Stoltz and Jason Muse had a love child.
And he was great.
He reminded me a lot of TJ Miller, who you might know from Silicon Valley.
He's also one of the voices in Big Hero 6.
He reminded me a lot of him too.
And I thought he did great.
I'm going to go to the opposite end of the spectrum here with you boys.
Because a lot of great performances here.
But I'm the other end of that.
That are in actor Roger Gwyneverse Smith.
This guy was in do the right thing.
He played, uh, he played Austin Jacobi.
Oh, oh, okay.
But this guy have over acted more.
And I'm the more I thought about it.
And I put this in my written review, which is at www.theclubhousepodcast.com.
Which is our website.
My first thought was, did this kind of get possessed by the ghost of Jack Palant?
But the more I thought about it, I was like, you know what?
Maybe this was a choice that they made for him to be this over the top.
Because you're seeing him through Malcolm's eyes.
And not more as a casual observer, like a fly on the wall.
Which is what, the same thing I got from the, like whenever you were saying you got kind of
Left turn, right turn because Malcolm's world just got completely upended.
This kid isn't used to this.
This guy's trying to get into Harvard.
Now, all of a sudden, the worst possible scenario he can be in as all of a sudden.
I want to give you that same disorienting that.
Yeah.
He was like, he was like a rat trapped in a maze.
And he had no idea how to get out of it.
But despite all his rage.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's like a different genre of music.
Right, right.
Time frame, different genre of music.
But yeah, I mean, I can see that.
But that's, I, and because all I can think of whenever that awesome guy was on this,
I was like, my God.
I was just waiting for him to start talking about Curly's goal.
But the more I thought about it, I was like, maybe this was a choice they made just because
you're looking at it through Malcolm's eyes.
Uh-huh.
But where has if it was more of just like the, the third person in the room,
it might have been a different performance.
But I mean, when I look at this guy's rise and I'm like, this guy's got skins on the wall.
So this has to have been a conscious choice.
Anything else you want to add about to film guys?
Um, probably finish.
We got to think of good friends.
Everybody at all.
And Ashley for inviting us to this thing.
Oh, yeah.
Totally.
Thank you guys.
This is right at two hours.
It's, I think it's an hour.
Oh, no.
It's right.
143.
I thought it was right at 120 to 103 minutes.
So an hour, 43.
Let's get to the final analysis.
The way we do the final analysis.
I'm going to show.
We don't give you letter grades or stars or numbers or thumbs up thumbs down.
Our audience, the empire is better than that.
It's a two-prong question.
Question number one is, would you see this film again?
If the answer is no, then we're done here.
But if the answer is yes, and how far are you going to go to see it?
Would you watch it in first run?
Would you watch it in twilight?
Uh, Matt and A price early morning?
Would you wait for it at the dollar theater?
Would you get it from red box?
Would you stream it through Netflix?
Or would you wait for it on television?
Chat.
Would you see this film again?
I would like to see it again because I feel like there's a ton of stuff I missed.
Fair enough.
But how far would you willing to go do so?
This is not the kind of film that I think lends itself well to a cinematic experience.
Video on demand where you can back it up and replay scenes that you might have missed.
I'm not saying it's not worth the theatrical sit,
but it's one of those kinds of films that I think hold would warrant repeated viewings.
Okay, done.
Would you see this again?
Yes, I would.
Okay, how would you see this again?
The only way I would see it again is something on the oak of Showtime or HBO.
Or it's DBR because they're the thing that kept me from wanting to see this again is the comedy.
Okay.
And if it's something like on, you know, TBS or something, it's going to be too edited out.
Oh, definitely.
So I would only recommend it in something,
an edited form on TV such as HBO only.
And that's the only way I've ever seen it again.
I would see this film again.
I've got the feeling though if you're going to watch this on cable,
which is where I would watch it again,
it would have to be like IFC.
This is something that I think IFC would get their teeth into and just play at Nazium.
But I would watch it if it were on TV.
I don't know that I'd go out of my way to see it again because as I said,
when we left the screening of this, it was good, but it wasn't great.
Like I liked it, but I didn't love it.
And I don't know if that has anything to do with the film that we got,
or it wasn't the film we were thinking we were going to get.
Well, the only reason I didn't give it the no because of the comedy.
That's the only reason I enjoyed it.
I just didn't love it.
Yeah.
And I don't think it's because the expectations got a lot of whack.
I just, because that only lasted me about 10 minutes.
And then I could kind of get into it.
Okay.
This is what's going on now.
Let me try to change my brain and look at this.
It just, I don't know.
It was good, not great.
Something about the way this film was marketed to where you really had no idea what you were getting.
At least she went out and looked for it, which I didn't.
And I don't want to have to do that all the time when it comes to films like this.
You know, it's just, I felt like going and cold almost did us a disservice.
I don't know possibly anything else we want to ask for against the plugs.
I can't wait for the soundtrack for this thing.
I could tell you that.
You might already have the majority of it already.
Yeah.
But you know, and a shoutout to two guys like ACAP Rocky.
I thought he was good.
Who wasn't even originally going to be in this film.
Right, because he was dating another girl that was in the movie at the time.
Yeah.
Helping her run lines.
Yeah.
And there's, I will say this.
There's a childhood game that you'll never see the same again.
And I'll never eat pound cake the same way.
Yeah.
I'll always eat pound cake.
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